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Local Legends in New Mexico

Folklore and local ghost stories tied to the places and communities where they are told.

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Santa Fe courthouse ghost

Santa Fe, NM

The Santa Fe courthouse ghost is New Mexico's modern classic: a white shape recorded gliding across the county courthouse lawn by a security camera in the 1980s — footage broadcast, argued over and never quite explained, in a city already thick with older ghosts.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

Local Legends

Faywood Hot Springs

Faywood, NM

Faywood Hot Springs steams in the New Mexico desert between Silver City and Deming — waters used for millennia by Mimbres people, then bathhouse eras from stage-stop to sanatorium to today's rustic resort. Springs telling keeps bathers of other centuries in the pools.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About local legends in New Mexico

New Mexico's local legends are compiled from local history, published folklore and visitor reports. Many are open to the public, and several offer tours or overnight stays.

Stories are recorded as accounts rather than established fact. Browse by city above, or open the full map to explore everything near you.